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. >> our aaa team was in norfolk, virginia, which is about a 15 minute drive from my house.rked in a local school system. so getting a chance to go to our aaa affiliates games, my dad knew a lot of the off duty police officers that were working security so, you know, they would kind of sneak me down sometimes and take pictures with some of the players or get some autographs or give me a foul ball and i got the biggest thrill out of meeting those players. and then, a couple weeks later, turning on the tv and seeing those same players playing in the big leagues in new york. so i grew up a bit of a displaced mets fan because of our aaa team >> seth: that's certainly a nice outcome that you ended up playing for your, you know, boyhood team how old were you when you made it to the bigs >> 21. >> seth: 21 years old. so you are moving to new york for the first time and, you know, i was 27 when i moved to new york and i was overwhelmed. 21, i can't even imagine true story you did not have a suit at that time? >> 100%. the trick was, and one of the -- a couple of the older guys, i wa

aaa couldn't help because the truck was too large bough he was able to lean on snf towing. cruz did so much for her family in the past. >> anything he asks me is free, free charge. >> reporter: in total, crooks caused $1200 in damage. money cruz says has already been raised by the community. from bad luck to blessings in less than 24 hours with a message to the people who took the truck and pulled the parts. >> would you reach out to us, can we feed you? we hold no grudges. >> reporter: cruz says now the goal is to get a second truck, one that is refrigerated to help even more residents in need. i'm amanda del castillo, abc7 news. >> a south bay city commonly referred to as one of america's safest is on alert after an outrageous attack. two -- out for a walk in sunnyvale's bird land neighborhood were targeted in broad daylight. one of them was robbed of a gold necklace, and now officials have a warning. >> please, honor your cultures, but when you're walking around maybe it's a good idea to cover it, wear a scarf and cover up the bracelets. >> several indian american women

in scranton pennsylvania where he wanted to have dinner you had to be a yankees fan because of the aaab and my grandpa was an all-american and a great yankees fan. it was hard back then but in delaware if you are not a phillies the end we put it this way, if i were not a phillies fan i would be sleeping alone. [laughter] you think i'm kidding. i am not. burger played for a year if my memory serves me correctly. he was the voice as one of the great baseball announcers in history . . . . can make all the and all the difference in ohio. i learned a long time ago that you win ohio you are the starting gate and again i spent a lot of time as i was telling the mayor when i first got elected to the senate i was 29 in washington and i got a phone call from a first responder saying my wife and daughter had just been killed and my two boys were badly injured and they were not sure if i'd make it. the fire department took about three hours and the jaws of life to get my kids out of the car because they were broadsided by a tractor-trailer. my sister managed my campaign my younger sister and much

martin patience, bbc news, aaa. -- tripoli.ty: terrible dilemma of that family, and they have lost that boy. and absolutely tragic situation. one of the few black opera singers in the northwest u.s. in june, he and a portland state university student went viral with their impromptu duet of the national anthem. it marked a moment of racial unity amid nationwide black lives matter protests. >> one day towards the end of may, i love my house to walk down the street, and i hear this vocalist. >> ♪ o say can you s by the dawn ♪ >> had been singing in the park blocks for maybe 20 minutes, just the national anthem over and over, different takes. out of the corner of my eye, i see this guy and he keeps going down the block. >> ♪ were so gallantly streaming ♪ >> i thought to myself, you know, it has been a really long time since you sang with somebody. >> he just asked -- >> "would you mind if i join you?" >> "sure." i'm always down with anything. i was like, oh, my gosh, his voice is incredible. >> ♪ and the rockets' red glare the bomb

but i think we also have to acknowledge that not everyone's going to get all of that aaa star treatment that he just got. >> something else that he got is dexamethasone. that one does have side effects, including manic behavior and euphoria, i think, is what i'm hearing from doctors. are there any signs that could be what the president is experiencing or do you not see that? >> well, you know, it's really hard to know. we see, especially it's much mo than your average prednisone, so it's really in that same family of steroids. and dexamethasone is at least ten times more potent, and we know that patients who get prednisone or decodron can actually experience euphoria and it can be a very heady, manic type feeling and it can last for a couple days or longer. so, it's possible. i mean, there have been a lot of reversals in the last few days, but again, i mean, i'm not his physician so i can't say. >> right. right. i want to move on to the general public and the broader battle against covid. of course, as we know, quick and efficient testing is absolutely critical to reopening the economy

to be behind them to do that well last year aaa reported a record this was a record number of 115600000 americans that travel during the holiday season and travel data from o.a.g. it reported in late september for thanksgiving reservations usually one of the busiest weeks for airports the reservations are actually down by as much as 89 percent do you think that those are actually picking up in these these last couple of weeks or are covert numbers actually affecting these. well i think it is some people are making decisions much closer into trouble we're not going to be near we want lists the things he's and i were seeing in a condo in one of her own an airline industry whether things like the vaccine coming revenants has other countries are talking states like hawaii these are all things that are going to reduce there are going to show you one thing with all of these. being laid off to some highlights which take many months to train. we have lost whole entire respect every time. there are firing rounds into the bottom of. this street no matter who wins the election a loss of it or will

aaa couldn't help because the truck was too large bough he was able to lean on snf towing.ing he asks me is free, free charge. >> reporter: in total, crooks caused $1200 in damage. money cruz says haslrdy l bko blessings in less than 24 hours with a message to the people who took the truck and pulled the parts. >> would you reach out to us, can we feed you? we hold no grudges. >> reporter: cruz says now the goal is to get a second truck, one that is refrigerated to help even more residents in need. i'm amanda del castillo, abc7 news. >> a south bay city commonly referred to as one of america's safest is on alert after an outrageous attack. two -- out for a walk in sunnyvale's bird land neighborhood were targeted in broad daylight. one of them was robbed of a gold necklace, and now officials have a warning. >> please, honor your cultures, but when you're walking around maybe it's a good idea to cover it, wear a scarf and cover up the bracelets. >> several indian american women who live in that neighborhood say they feel targeted now for their gold jewelry and are warning eac

recognized government in aaa on the eastern based temperate governments have been holding talks in morocco the new appointments include the central bank up into chairman of the national oil corporation and a general prosecutor and aims must be endorsed by both houses of parliament. the mexican resort town of cancun is bracing for a direct hit from hurricane delta which has strengthened now to a category 4 storm tourists have moved from her tells into shelters and the hurricane could be the strongest to strike the mexican states of yucatan in 15 years neighboring cuba is also bracing for the storm and has evacuated coastal areas are expected to head towards the state of louisiana in the u.s. later on this week. to pakistan where more than a 1000000 people are struggling to recover from 2 months of devastating floods the province of sindh has been worst hit childless schalit by this reports. the rains began in august in the southern port city of karachi they were the heaviest in almost a seam tree they lashed the surrounding province of sindh for 2 months monsoon rains fell on already sort o

a good part of the mediterranean the cool northerly wind coming in for some 24 celsius there for a aaa shows continue the seasonal showers continue across central parts of africa heavy rain there down towards the gulf of guinea all the way through much of west africa. cyprus a european island open offering citizenship to those who can afford it in august al jazeera made global headlines with the cyprus papers confidential documents that reveal a murky passport by investment scheme promised for. the. now al-jazeera is investigative unit goes undercover to expose further revelations that go to the heart of the cypriot state al-jazeera investigations the cyprus papers on the cover. the all the. the we. come back headlines now less than 24 hours after a missile killed 13 civilians in the as ery city of ganja amenia says it's agreed to a humanitarian truce with azerbaijan russia brokered a cease fire a week ago which failed to stop the fighting of the disputed a corner car back region which asked as of march in lebanese capital city beirut to mark a year since the start of mass anti-governm

deal with signed in geneva to months of negotiations between the internationally recognized government aaa and its rivals in the east the have a gem june has more. after 5 days of un hosted talks a historic breakthrough libya's warring factions signing a national cease fire today is a good day for the libyan people. at 11 15 am this morning here in the u.n. headquarters in geneva the 2 libyan delegations to the 5 plus joint military commission talks signed a complete countrywide and permanent cease fire agreement with immediate effect. under the terms all foreign fighters are required to leave libya within 3 months and a new joint police force will start patrolling disputed areas. for libya which has been wracked by conflict for nearly 10 years these past 14 months has only seen the fighting worsen while the east of the country is in the hands of powerful word khalifa haftar and the tobruk based house of representatives the west is controlled by the un backed government of national accord led by prime minister. they remain in tripoli the country's capital after who is supported by russia e

reach out and they try to siphon off as much of that old safe passage to your pension by sticking no aaa rating on it so that they can sell the investment grade on. your pension i mean some of those have been downgraded so they can no longer be sold 0 pension so they're looking at what the next options are while the traditional playbook during the last financial crisis was hold taxpayers to ransom by being sued big tobacco. gates and a baby ingests take out people's deposits to recapitalize your bank and then issue them some saw it's monetary policy is no longer working and will close of this. the governments around the world had been saying the most aggressive fiscal stimulus is that they can muster up funded by a quantitative easing and then the next thing needs a soft thinking about well what if people you know which funding the wolds well what happens when the stall actually funding the loans and covering their mortgages all of these packages eventually you're going to get real estate de france people can no longer afford their mortgages need to sock thinking about new locations a ba

the financial sector and the local down while they're doing everything that and to prevent it from aaa down they've taken over the brain and steve and i are not part of it we've somehow got an immunity and you know we're on your show where you go around the world together saying the same bank and. the world doesn't seem to change to make a long story short. you know when that when we looked at the react to me these simulations are it is bailouts whatever you want to call it i mean obviously i mean they the politicians out there are a list and there is no you can care right away i mean what is the naacp what is the stage of the council or a solid by the one percent to meet these create new knowledge stations or simply you know representative i mean that's what they were or ok i mean well i think i think they're actually not that small and not i understood that but then again i get a lot. bankers are very smart guy only trying to get to the top of the system lack of morals gets to the top of the system out of your market my uncle and i have too much in the way of morals to get to the top

would take over everything and there are $160.00 farm team system it starts a single day goes up to aaa which is pretty much one step below the majors they would get a 40 teams now that is 40 teams with dozens of players personnel coaches staff that you're just telling you know what you don't care that you exist and the fact that you won't be these people need a livable wage even minimum wage and i being the minimum wage when your average major league baseball stars of like 2019 makes $4000000.00 you can barely pay them $15000.00 and yet you're like you know what let's tighten the belt let's tighten the belt let's tighten the belt and you're telling these players we don't care about you and even players on twitter sometimes joke like a life of a minor league or my kitchen is in my bedroom at my $900.00 apartment that i have maybe 50 bucks or i left it's sad it's disgusting and these are suppose they are you know some are heroes yet we're like you know what you really don't matter. do you think bad kobe 1000 has an impact here is this lawsuit a result of 1000 in the economic stress of th

for foreign central banks who have to invest in euros, why not get eu credit aaa and get a pickup overso that is what everyone came out to play for. guy: there were a lot of redemptions, so this was well-managed from that front. do you think it is repeatable? how much money could we see potentially being issued here? how much debt could we be seeing issued here? marcus: this is a slamdunk, exactly what they could have dreamt for. they could have issued a lot more. the is a major issuer, scale of italy, germany, or france. here for good. it will be issuing the balance of another 80 billion the rest of this calendar year, and probably closer to 250, maybe 300 billion next year. italy might be debt, depending on whether or not it's need to -- might beat it, depending on whether he needs to. but the point of it here is that this is not a joint and several liable eurobonds. this is a separate issuance vehicle that doesn't leave any countries on the risk for it, but it does affect the european union. as long as everyone stays a part of the european union, than this is good. guy: on that note

aaa,ven things like the which is the agricultural adjustment act. it includes the federal emergency relief agency. it includes the national recovery act. now, interestingly, what finally pulls the country out of the depression -- and i just want to ask if anybody knows the answer to this -- what is it that finally got us beyond the new deal and gets the country out of depression? does anyone know? hard for me to see. does someone want to speak out? >> yeah, world war ii. prof. gutin: world war ii, thank you chase. all of a sudden, putting people back into factories and being part of the industries, and yes, finally world war ii extracts us, lifts us up from the depression --e terrible hold of the depression. now, roosevelt doesn't something as part of his vision that speaks to communication and is really considered extraordinary in its own way. he decides that he is going to talk to the people on radio. and, of course, the series of chats that he gives, the series of talks become known as the fireside chats. now, of course, will always makes me smil

according to a recent survey from aaa, 67% of those planning a vacation before the end of the year are not certain they'll be able to take vacations. some are waiting until the last minute before finalizing plans. the survey shows one in five planning a trip haven't yet booked it. 80ll trips. >>> americans are heading to destinations known for outdoor recreation like hiking and exploring states and national parks including denver colorado, your hometown, las vegas, los angeles, san diego, seattle washington. >> i am in for a stay cation and i am okay. >> you get to be with your wonderfully. >> and you and gianna. that's awesome. how is the traffic going? >> can i throw my name in if there needs to be a special assignment to investigate the story to check out the locations, i would be happy to go. >> the first name in the hat is yours. >>> taking a look at the roadways as you hit the altamont pass, a few brake lights. it is a slow ride out of tracy getting to the altamont pass area. it's the usual stuff. super commuters you know what to expect. there are no accidents or incidents, so th

before that, they are still fromng a aaa rated product two of the main credit ratings energies. is not -- it is on a path from germany and that respect. what the eu will hope to do is build out the yield curve, that will be the real challenge is to create a liquid enough market so these bonds can rival some of the others in the region. guy: thank you very much for your time. thank you for your reporting. joining us on the bond market story out of europe. fastening to see what is happening with the yields. let's take a look away european equities have closed. near session lows. a little bit higher during the option but not much -- during the auction but not much. the dismal session. london leading the charge lower, hardly augmented by what is happening with the pound. expect brexit headlines as we get details on what happened on the call between the eu and u.k. negotiating teams. hopefully will bring that to you on the show or the cable at the top of the hour on dab digital radio. .his is bloomberg' ♪ ritika: this is "the european close." coming up next, an exclusive interview wi

. >> reporter: here at aaa flag and banner they make bansers for the biggest sports teams. >> we can print up to 10 foot wide. >> reporter: large. >> very large. >> reporter: this summer they've been printing something a bit smaller. >> it started with the giants. >> reporter: a giants marketing vp was the very first. now at levi stadium. -- >> we had almost 2000 cut outs the first week for the 49ers. >> reporter: when you hear about cardboard fans. >> it's pvc. >> reporter: when it rains it won't crumple? >>crumple. >> reporter: you can design your own cutout. >> fits nice and snug. >> reporter: it travels through cyberspace to these giant print irz. the lights make the ink waterproof. >> the uv lights cure it. >> reporter: a laser-guided cutter slices apart the fake fan. >> we can print 600 a day. >> reporter: for best results stand up tall and show your niners gear. >> nice resolution photo. >> reporter: there are celebrities. >> e-40 is a huge 49ers fan. >> reporter: each faithful fan is fitted with a foam block so they don't cast blair from the sun. >> make sure we don't blind t

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the notice elaine received from aaa left her stunned. the premium went from $3800 in 2018 to almost $5,000 in 2020. >> i remember looking at it going, you know, wow, what happened here? >> elaine says she's never seen such a huge rate hike not even after the oakland hills fire when her home escaped damage. mike from los gatos has been through such sticker shock before. he's asked to remain anonymous but said his premium lastatsta h went from $1500 to $2100 and received an increase this year. his home sustained significant damage during the lexington fire in 1985 but he says the rate increases after that fire were relatively minor compared to what he's experiencing now. the reason for all these rate hikes shouldn't be a surprise. insurance companies saw a record $25 billion in losses in 2017 and '18 from the california wildfires. michael is with the department of insurance. >> the department has received many increases, many requests from insurance companies to increase rates, and hope owners are feeling that impact right now. >> in 2016

to me, the equivalent where game players upgrade their consoles because of the new aaa titles, it's differents the carriers are all on board with iphone 12 because the carriers want customers to upgrade to 5g plans and this is the flagship 5g phone on all of the major carriers >> john, isn't it possible that the real impact here of these carrier subsidies is that we don't get as much of a dropoff after the holiday season in iphone demand because what the carriers want to do is get 5g devices in people's hands so as they start to role that out more, they've got better revenue coming in, lower churn from their user base. if that's the case, apple's potentially in a pretty good position despite the fact they didn't give guidance, whether they were being coy or not. >> yeah, i think so. iphone is cyclical it's big in the holiday quarter, for the obvious reason, people ask for them for holiday gifts if they can't meet demand for that, does that mean -- if you can't get your hands on an iphone 12 for the holidays, are you not going to get one in january when supply reaches up with demand? no, i don

we are aaa bonded rating. we can do some things that other people can't we have to make sure that we arere doing this but i thinkn that figuring out what those are. and then for cities on the local level that don't have income taxation. progressive taxation. for us to ramp up our spending and don't want to balance the different situation than the federal government.r the question about sales taxes. the negative expectations are contrary to activity. at least through august. t the aunt restaurants or food services there are many other things g that are part of that detailed tax base. and through the in restaurant. to piggyback on if you can talk about expectations. more stable.e it did affect property taxes in this case. nevertheless we are not seeing that lens. i just wonder if you could comment on that i can at least start with that for chattanooga. it is about $270 million operating budget with about $50 million of capital per year. that a hundred million dollars for race --dash waste water. it ends up being

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the american association for the advancement of science area it has a long-standing cooperation with aaa s so that we benefit from their technical and professionalexpertise. the team is doing an outstanding job of dealing with covid on the home front and working on it professionally . >> this is phil dobbs from state. i think i echo the remarks of my colleagues. i think vacancies have not been a substantial challenge and are part of the department on this issue. as i testified we have also been increasing our staff. we've added experts using the special authority the department has provided in this regard . adding that to the staffing offices that deal with biological issues so i think in general, we don't have staffing challenges. we do have a great partnership. and fellowships to bring us technical expertise but i think recruiting a technical specialist is sometimes a challenge and that is probably the one area where at times it has been a bit of a challenge for us. >> thank you for sharing that and i hope the committee can be involved to whateverend is appropriate in ensuring that you

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the long-standing cooperation with aaa s. so we benefitloat from their technical and professional expertise for the team is doing an outstanding job dealing with covid on the homefront. and of course working on it professionally. >> thank you. so i think i echoed the remarks of my colleagues. i think vacancies have not been a substantial challenge in our part of the department on this issue. as i testified, we have also been increasing our staff. we have at it experts using a special authority that the department has provided in this regard. and we havee added to the staffing of theha offices that deal of biological issues. so i think in general, we don't have staffing challenges. we too have a greatat partnership and fellowships that bring us technical expertise. but i think recruiting the technical specialist is sometimes a challenge and that is probably the one area where at times, it has been a bit of a challenge for us. >> thank you very much for sharing that i hope the committee can be involved to ever and is appropriat

we have a long standing cooperation with aaas. we benefit from their technical and professional expertise. they do a great job dealing with covid on the home front and working on it professionally. >> thank you. >> this is phil from state. i echo the remarks of my colleagues. i think that vacancies have not been a substantial challenge in our department on this issue. as i testified we have been increasing our staff. we added experts using a special authority, and we added to the staffing of the offices that deal with buy logical issues. i think in general we don't have staffing challenges. we have a great partnership and fellowship, i think that rerouting a technical specialist is a challenge. it has been a bit of a challenge for us. >> i hope that the committee can get to the staffing levels that are necessary. i'm going to ask for the next portion because it will direct what my follow up question is. by a show of hands do your teams participate in a war game exercise to train and prepare for potential biological security risks.

association for the advancement of science in this department has a long-standing cooperation with aaa aspirated so that we benefit from their technical and professional expertise the team is doing a nice outstanding job of dealing with covid-19 on the homefront and working on it professionally. >> this is from the state. so i think i cannot of the remarks of my colleagues pray to think that vacancies have not been a substantial challenge and are part of the department on this issue. as i testified, we have also been increasing our staff. we have added experts using a special authority said the department has providing in this regard and we batted to the staffing of the offices and deal with biological issues. so i think in general, we do not have staffing challenges. we too have a great partnership rated end in fellowships that bring us technical expertise. i think recruiting technical specialists is sometimes a challenge. that is probablyy the one area where at times and has been a bit of a challenge for us. >> thank you very much for sharing that. and i have the committee can be inv

when you had the european sovereign debt crisis and also the cutting of the a ark a bond rating -- aaa u.s. debt, you actually see a big rebound 70% of the time. so it depends on which trends that you track and believe in. there are some pretty good indicators that, yes, we may have a stalling-out a pattern here in the u.s., but people are still spending as we held into a strong last few months of the year for the stock market. neil: you know, when you go into those trading pits yourself, phil, i know this sounds like a trite question, but the mood, the mood of investors, the mood of traders, what they make of this and how the haas quarter is going to work out. >> i think they all need prozac, because the mood shifts have been unbelievable. [laughter] especially over the last couple of months, right? we came into september with such high expectations that we were going to get beyond the coronavirus, you know, we're just beyond, we're just so close to getting a vaccine, you know, and then of course we get into september when we had all this volatility, all those pullbacks. are we head o